Re: Database
Re: Database
- Subject: Re: Database
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 20:10:29 -0600
The way to go about telling Apple that Objective-C EOF for Cocoa
needs to come back is to file a bug report at
<
http://bugreport.apple.com/>.
Tell them what you would use it for, what particular features of EOF
you would use, how much time you estimate it would save you during
your product's development, how it would positively affect your
product's user experience, and how much you would be willing to pay
for an SDK.
For instance, I don't actually need the Cocoa interface layer or
native database adaptors, just the object-relational mapping layer
and the flat-file adaptor. (Though an over-the-bridge JDBC adaptor
would be sweet.) I estimate it would shave at *least* a month off
the development of my product to just not have to worry about data
storage or modeling issues.
I think using EOF would help my product's user experience in three
ways: My data storage would be more robust (battle-tested rather
than new code); my product would be more flexible - including the
ability to easily go client-server in the future without too much
work; and I would be able to spend more time on my product's human
interface design rather than in the low-level details of serializing
lots and lots of interrelated records in a robust, reliable, and
extensible manner.
And finally I'd be willing to pay up to a couple hundred dollars per
seat for a maintained Objective-C EOF software development kit
*provided* it came with an unlimited deployment license *or* the
deployment package was part of Mac OS X. (In other words, I'd be
willing to buy an SDK but not do the bookkeeping necessary to pay
royalties to Apple for every copy sold or require my customers to buy
additional software to use my product.)
If *every* developer that wants Apple to bring back the Objective-C
version of EOF can make this sort of business case to Apple via
Apple's official feedback channels, perhaps they'll notice and
reconsider their decisions. Or do something else that will satisfy
our needs (like ship something as far beyond EOF as EOF is beyond
ODBC).
-- Chris
PS - The product I'm talking about isn't an enterprise product and
isn't custom development. It's prepackaged software targeted at
consumers and small businesses. EOF could be *killer* for serving
this market segment; databases aren't just for big shops.
--
Chris Hanson | Email: email@hidden
bDistributed.com, Inc. | Phone: +1-847-372-3955
Making Business Distributed | Fax: +1-847-589-3738
http://bdistributed.com/ | Personal Email: email@hidden
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